Quentin Durward Author:Walter Scott Quentin Durward was written when Scott was at the height of his power, and most of his admirers consider it to be one of his four or five best novels. ...it at first received greater acclaim in France than in Britain, and did much to establish Scott's persisting popularity as a writer of English stature. The title character, a young Scottish so... more »ldier of fortune, courageous and straightforward and resourceful, was a man whom Scott was well able to invent and portray, but the plot, the crucial events, and the principle characters, Louis XI of France, Charles the Bold, Duke of Normandy, William de la Marck ("the Wild Boar of the Ardennes"), follow closely upon the factual history of 1468 as based on the chronicles of Philip des Comines and later memoirs and histories. Complete and Unabridged.« less